It occurred to me while listening to President Obama the other day on the subject of the economy that he had to have been born in the early 60s. A lot of the new generation of our leaders were. It further occurred to me that their year of birth perhaps explains their odd sense of belief that science, hard such as physics or soft such as psychiatry, can solve almost all problems, leaving us no worries and then we can all live happily together.
It is a formula that you hear again and again in their speeches. First we'll fix, through science that the car companies will invent, the emissions that cars spout incessantly, and then we'll reduce the amount of gas they need to run and we'll have more cheap gas than we need and everything will be wonderful. Science and then happiness, over and over.
My epiphany..... they grew up in the 60's and seventies, parked in front of the TV as most kids were then. The two most popular shows for kids....................Star-Trek and Sesame Street...........science and happiness...........think about it.
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i think you might be onto something.
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